[UA] THE BEALE CIPHERS

[Eric]

> It's not a simple substition cipher. He took a different word
beginning with
> A for each instance of A. Basically, he used the Declaration of
Independence
> as a sort of one-time pad. One-tiime pads are still pretty much
unbreakable,
> yeah?

    I think in the circumstance described, it would actually be a
pretty vulnerable cipher, but, all I know about one time pads I
learned from reading the "Cryptonomcron" and I think we're still
banned from discussing that book on this list.
        -- Eric
Will GM for food.


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